Author's Note: Here is the second part of Gloomy Manor. As i'm working on this, I'm watching the anime and watching the rest of season 2! As for the story, I may or may not have Lillie collect every gem, boo, and coin (or "Pokedollars" in this case and yes that's what they're called) in each mansion. And also in the game Dark Moon, Prof. Egadd upgrades Luigi's vacuum if you collect a lot of coins. But for this fanfic, i'll probably have the professors upgrade Lillie's vacuum after completing each manor. BTW the narrator voice parts are from the show, but I may not do it all the time. But i'll try to put it in it if I can. Anyways, hope you enjoy this!
The gang was in the bunker preparing Lillie for the real terror that lies ahead.
"Ready for some more ghost catching, Lillie?" asked Rotom.
"N-not really." responded Lillie.
Burnet explained the situation. "Look, we need to look for those pieces! Luckily, this place has an invention to make Dark Moon piece hunting a breeze! It's called the Parascope, a device that detects and measures distant paranormal signals. In fact, we just used it to scan the Gloomy Manor and we found some strong activity in the north rooms. And that is where we'll start our search!" However, Lillie was a little worried about the "strong activity".
"Don't worry, Lillie. There's no reason to be scared now that you have the Poltergust 5000 on you. Now Rotom, details." Rotom pressed a key on the keyboard pulling up an image of blueprints on a monitor. "There's a mechanism that controls the access to the northern rooms upstairs. It's located in the Foyer. We'll give you instructions once you get there. Now let's go!" Lillie was then teleported to the manor.
Lillie appeared in the air again, but inside the entrance room of Gloomy Manor. Once gravity kicked in, she fell on her butt with her hat covering her eyes. After waving her flashlight around to check for ghosts, she took a sigh of relief and got up fixing her hat. Since her objective was to head to the foyer, Lillie did exactly that. She ran through the guard hall avoiding the knights and went to the foyer. But upon entering the room, she saw four ghosts near some sort of machine on the wall. Lillie was scared because they were not the typical greenies she caught before. These ghosts were big, red, and angry and they were called Slammers. One of the ghosts reached into the wall and ripped four gears out of the wall! After passed a gear to each of his friends, two of them went upstairs and the other two went into the nearby hall on the left leaving the door open. After they were gone, Lillie got a call from the others.
"Those darn ghosts! Lillie, those brutes stole the gears from that mechanism we told you about! Without those, you can't get to the rooms upstairs!" exclaimed Kukui. "We'll use the parascope to locate those ghosts and then you can use your map to hunt them down!"
"Right!" Lillie said as she put away the Pokedex. She walked over to the open door on the left, but it immediately slammed shut on her! Suddenly behind her a greenie appeared holding a key! But before Lillie could stun him, he ran out of the foyer and back down the hall.
"Hey! You get back here!" yelled Lillie as she ran after him. She ended up back at the entrance room where she saw the ghost swinging on the chandelier. She stunned it before sucking it up into the Poltergust. After the ghost got sucked in, the key he had popped out of the handle. Once Lillie had the key, she didn't go back to the foyer. Instead she went to the Mudroom on the right to check for keys or ghosts. She saw a green panel next to the door like the one she saw on her first mission. She proceeded to flash the panel unlocking the door. She went outside to the Mudroom Exterior. Next to an uninhabited doghouse, Lillie found a gem on top of a tree branch. She remembered seeing the ghost dog playing with the gem before it got stuck on the tree. She pulled it down with her vacuum with ease. After putting it in her pocket, she got a call.
"Woah, there are valuable gems in there too?!" shouted Rotom. "I need this for my data!" Soon after Kukui moved him aside so he can talk with Lillie.
"Looks like you found a gem. I wonder if there are any more in the manor. But that's not the point. We have a job to do, Lillie. You can look for gems on your offtime." said Kukui.
"Okay." responded Lillie as she put away the Pokedex. After some backtracking, she went back to the foyer and used her key on the door that slammed shut which lead into the Common Hall. She checked her map and saw an exclamation point in four different rooms. Her first stop was a room on the left. She head through the door into the Lab. She flashed all the corners of the room but there was no luck. She noticed the chalkboard in the room move a little and thought a ghost was hiding behind it. She used her Poltergust to spin the chalkboard revealing a greenie behind it! Soon after another greenie joined him, but luckily Lillie stunned and caught them both. But soon a red ghost from before tried to attack her from behind! Lillie heard him grunt in anger and quickly flashed him before pulling him hard. After he was sucked in, one of the gears he had popped out of the vacuum.
"One down, three more to go." said Lillie as she picked up the gear. She left the lab and went to the other door where another gear was. But for some reason the door was open, but it wouldn't budge. After looking around the hall, she noticed a piece of wallpaper was ripped off. After sucking it up, she found a secret room called the Secret Pocket. Once in, she noticed a peephole and looked through it and saw another new type of ghost in the room ahead. It was blue, tall, and slender ghost known as a Hider. She also saw there was another hider inside, one was posing and the other was painting. After looking in the studio, she saw a pile of dirt blocking the door.
"So that's why I can't get in." whispered Lillie. After digging around through the room, she found a key. With the key in hand, she went back to the foyer and head on upstairs. But before she could reach the top, the stairs suddenly turned flat and she slid back down! Following the changing staircase, a hider laughed at her and hid somewhere in the foyer. After she got up, she got ready to stun it but couldn't find it. She checked one of the nearby drawers and the sneaker popped out! The hider tried running away, but she caught it before it could hide in something else. After dealing with the ghost, she went upstairs to the door and used her key to get into the Master Hall. As soon as she stepped into the room, she noticed the entire hall was filled with huge spiderwebs! Luckily, two doors on the left were available for use. Lillie first went towards the door on the left. But suddenly, a bunch of Spinarak rode down on strings from the webbed ceiling! Lillie didn't want to hurt them, so she flashed them and they ran away. She went into the room on the left which was a parlor complete with a fireplace, grandfather clock, chairs, and a gramophone. She took a look at the record player and decided to listen to music to relax by turning the spinning handle on the side. But after listening to some calm music for a bit, a greenie popped out of the speaker! After another greenie appeared, Lillie stunned and caught them both in one fell swoop! Her celebration would have to wait, as another slammer appeared from the speaker! After dodging a few shockwave claps, she caught it and got another gear. But before she left, she noticed the grandfather clock had a green panel on it. After flashing it, the clock opened and dropped a gem. After getting the gem, she left the room and and went to the other room in the hall which was the Master Bedroom. Inside the room she saw a door and a tassel hanging on the ceiling near an oven. Lillie checked her map and saw an exclamation mark in a room that she thought was up ahead. So she went to the door and tried opening it but surprisingly, the door opened outwards and slammed Lillie on the wall before slamming shut. After recovering, she pulled on the tassel using the Poltergust to see if there was a secret compartment. But a bed came down from the wall and fell in front of the fake door. Lillie got on bed and started to lie down and rest, finally catching a break from the mean ghosts and fake doors. But suddenly the bed started to shake and soon the bed retracted back into the wall taking Lillie with it! After getting thrown off the bed, she slid down the wall and onto the floor in a different room that looked like a study. After getting up, she saw up on the wall there was a gear. But as she went to pull it down, a greenie scared her and blocked the area where the gear was with a picture! After more greenies and a slammer appeared, she caught them all after a whole lot of dodging. After catching all of them, she moved the picture frame and got the third gear.
"Only one more to go!" Lillie said proudly. She looked around for an exit but there wasn't a door in sight and she couldn't go back the way she came. After panicking, Lillie desperately and frantically ran around looking for a way out and tripped on the nearby rug. After getting up, she noticed a secret panel underneath the rug. She stood on it and suddenly the fire in the fireplace went out. Lillie thought she found her exit, but was worried if there were ghosts hiding in there. She carefully stepped into the fireplace and looked around.
"Hello?" Lillie asked looking up. Suddenly the floor dropped from underneath her and Lillie fell right through it! After falling through the chimney, she tumbled onto the floor. After she got up, she realized she was in the room that was blocked off. But before she could look for the last gear, she had to take down some hiders! Once she found one, she stunned it and got a hold of him. But behind her back, the other hider poked his body out of the nearby vase and got ready to throw a boot at her! The good news was that Lillie sucked the ghost into the vacuum. The bad news was she got a boot thrown at her back. After getting up, she was starting to get annoyed and caught the other hider in no time at all. But out popped the last Slammer as he tried to attack her with his vicious shockwaves. Luckily, Lillie stunned and caught him and obtained the final gear! After putting the gear in her pocket, she got a call from the others.
"Any luck, Lillie? asked Kukui.
"Great news! I got all the gears!"
"Wow! That was fast! Okay, now you need to go back to the Foyer and put the gears back into the access mechanism."
"Right!" Lillie put away the Pokedex and went right back to the Foyer. Once inside, she went to the area where the slammers took the the gears. Lillie took out the gears and tried to place them in the machine. But for some reason, gears wouldn't fit into the slot! She tried all four gears, but none of them fit. Then she noticed that the gears were bent out of shape making it impossible for her to put them back in. As she put the gears back into her pocket, she got a call from the professors and explained the situation.
"What? The gears don't fit?" said Burnet. "Those brute ghosts must've bent them. But i'm sure we can repair them back in the bunker. Well, at least you got all the gears back."
"And it seems you've caught some new ghosts as well as a gem! Perfect for my data!" squealed Rotom.
"Alright, Lillie. We're bringing you back now." said Kukui. Lillie was tired after that mission and was happy to be taken back to the bunker.
Once she was taken back, the professors, Rotom, and Snowy were happy to see her back in one piece.
"Great work, Lillie! Let's have a look at those gears." said Burnet. Lillie took out the four gears and handed them to Rotom. While it was heavy for him (and much bigger than him), he managed to set them down gently on the workbench.
"I'm sure me and Rotom can fix these." said Kukui. Kukui and Rotom decided to get to work fixing the gears.
"Now let's unload the Poltergust and send those ghosts to the vault." said Burnet as she pressed the button making the tube pop out. Lillie connected the vacuum to the tube and the ghosts and the gem she collected were sent to the vault. Once she detached the vacuum, they continued their conversation.
"Even though fixing the gears won't take long for them, why don't we check the vault?" asked Burnet. Lillie agreed and Snowy decided to go along.
(In narrator's voice) After dealing with Slammers, Hiders, and secret exits, Lillie has learned a bunch of new things about the manor. What other secrets lie ahead for her? And what gastly ghosts will she have to take down? The answers will be revealed, as the journey continues!